Joni Mitchell: “Everything About Bob [Dylan] Is a Deception”

In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Joni Mitchell is very outspoken about her distaste for a one Bob Dylan. When asked about authenticity, specifically that of the folk scene—“You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan,” the reporter points out—Mitchell had the following to say: “Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.” Mitchell’s charges of plagiarism likely stem from a 2006 controversy over Dylan’s album Modern Times, the lyrics of which some claim borrow heavily from the poet Henry Timrod. (One example: Timrod wrote, “There is a wisdom that grows up in strife," which is similar to Dylan’s “Where wisdom grows up in strife.”)

The times they are a’changin’!/Blood on the tracks!/Some other lyrical metaphor! Anyway, winner, as always: Lady Gaga.